Breaking News: The Orion Zine, The Observatory, is finally out! It's got general Artemis Fowl fandom news, details about popular authors and their fics, writing tips, canon Q&As, some humour articles, and more. It's intended to complement the Orion Awards' goal of showcasing quality writing by helping provide people with the means to improve their writing - and also be a lot of fun! So go check it out, and let us know what you think!
The Orion Awards has finally found a new and stable server - at last! Come and join us on the forums to talk about quality Artemis Fowl fic. Nominations are now open for the 2006 Orion awards, so come along, nominate your favourite fics, and help us recognise and reward the best stories and authors in the fandom!
Now, about me. I'm twenty-three and I live in Australia with my husband and two deeply spoiled Siamese cats. I work full-time as a computer programmer, play and teach the piano, sing solo and in a choir, sew formal wear for my friends, do maths puzzles for fun, and think Wikipedia is only slightly less dangerously addictive than fanfiction.
Despite all the other things I do, however, I sleep, eat, and breathe Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl. When I'm not reading anything I can get my hands on, I'm desperately trying to exorcise the plot-bunnies that plague me in my dreams by writing. As far as my fanfic preferences go, I'm an any-shipper - the originality of the concept, and the quality of the writing and characterisation is far more important to me than what ship you sail. In particular, I support the quality fanfiction archives of the Sugar Quill for Harry Potter (restricted to canon-likely ships), and Criminality for Artemis Fowl.
I'm going to be a published writer one day, and fanfiction is my way of practicing my writing for my first novel. Like all writers, I love reviews, and I particularly love constructive criticism - it helps me improve. So be cruel to be kind!
My literary inspirations are:
JK Rowling - fantastic universe you've made there - I hope you don't mind if I take it for a stroll!
Eoin Colfer - how can you not love a criminal mastermind?
Robert Jordan - wonderful intricate plots
David Eddings - always good for a light read
Gordan Korman - for the funniest books ever
Particular books:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon) - for making me laugh and cry and think, all at the same time
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet) - "heaven to read, and you'll laugh like hell".
FanFiction.Net - unleash your imagination
